A democratic State cannot
impose a single current of thinking on gender, the Vatican said
in a statement on Monday.
Families' freedom on sex education in schools should be
guaranteed, it said.
"Education on affection need adequate and measured language,"
it said.
A "culture of dialogue" must foster "the legitimate
aspiration of Catholic schools to maintain their own vision of
human sexuality as a function of the freedom of families," it
said.
The Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education added:
"within the framework of research on gender, there emerge some
possible meeting points to grow mutual understanding.
"Not rarely, in fact, educational projects have the
appreciable need of fighting against all expressions of unfair
discrimination."
The document underscored the importance, in this sphere, of
respecting women and combating bullying.
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